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Privilege and Liberty Aurèle Kolnai Document generated on 10/01/2021 4:55 a.m. Laval théologique et philosophique Privilege and Liberty Aurèle Kolnai Volume 5, Number 1, 1949 URI: https://id.erudit.org/iderudit/1019817ar DOI: https://doi.org/10.7202/1019817ar See table of contents Publisher(s) Laval théologique et philosophique, Université Laval ISSN 0023-9054 (print) 1703-8804 (digital) Explore this journal Cite this article Kolnai, A. (1949). Privilege and Liberty. Laval théologique et philosophique, 5(1), 66–110. https://doi.org/10.7202/1019817ar Tous droits réservés © Laval théologique et philosophique, Université Laval, This document is protected by copyright law. Use of the services of Érudit 1949 (including reproduction) is subject to its terms and conditions, which can be viewed online. https://apropos.erudit.org/en/users/policy-on-use/ This article is disseminated and preserved by Érudit. Érudit is a non-profit inter-university consortium of the Université de Montréal, Université Laval, and the Université du Québec à Montréal. Its mission is to promote and disseminate research. https://www.erudit.org/en/ Privilege and Liberty I. THE “ COMMON m a n ” VERSUS “ PRIVILEGE” The cult of the “ Common Man” and the corresponding hatred of “ Privilege” constitute the classic ideological bridges, connecting-links, or portages as it were, between equalitarian “progressive” Democracy and Communism — or to put it with greater precision,from Democracy to Communism. The principle of social levelling and monism they express (in the language fashionable to-day) is what underlies the logic of that final and suicidal surrender of Democracy to Communism which powerful forces in the midst of our society are seeking to bring about: a surrender to be experienced, at the same time, as a dialectical self-fulfilment, an historical consummation, a self-transcending apotheosis of Democracy. Those among us who object to Communism radically and essentially, on principle and not merely on tactical and temporary grounds or by reason of psychological inhibitions, — a handful of men only, perhaps, in an actual but very many more in a virtual sense, seeing that the “ plain” or “ ordinary” man, a far more real creature than the “ Common Man” which is a construct of subversive sophists and seekers for power, cannot but dread Communism as the blighting tyranny it is, though in default of any intelligent leader­ ship in resistance he may be inclined to submit to it half-heartedly, — true and integral anti-communists, in a word, should not only abstain from verbal celebrations of the idol of the “ Common Man” but actively set about its destruction, and not merely subdue their voices when joining in the ritual chorus of abuse against “ Privilege” but make bold to demand and to acclaim a downright philosophical apologia of Privilege in regard to both the frail remnants of it that have survived to this day and the more vital new types of it which, we trust, will emerge again in more civilized epochs to come. Nor should they suffer to be deterred from their task by the allegation of the Marxists and their “ progressive” flunkeys, mend­ acious in its spirit but not altogether false in its substance, that whoever opposes Communism relentlessly must inevitably oppose Democracy itself in a certain sense and to a certain degree; that whoever fails to worship the “ Common Man” and to abhor “ Privilege” is ineluctably tainted with heresy concerning such fundamental dogmas as that of Equality and “ The People’s Will.” In serene impassivity towards all “ tactical” preoccupations in our own minds and all “ psychological” stratagems of the Enemy, then, not swerving from our path either in the directions of “ Liberal” compromise and diplomacy or in those of reactionary aestheticism or Fascist hysteria (which under a “ Rightist” flag tends to oppose Leftist totalitarianism PRIVILEGE AND LIBERTY 6 7 by a noisy and ineffectual caricature thereof), let us inquire into the mean­ ing of the dominant theme in the process that surrounds and threatens to submerge us: the theme of “ The Common Man versus Privilege.” Again, our enquiry must not be guided by any arbitrary and particul- arist “ group bias,” in favour of this or that still-powerful or menaced or ci-devant “ oligarchy,” that is to say; from our main argument, we may draw sympathetic applications to any or all of these, but in a secondary and accidental sense only: neither a relationship of being “ commandeered” nor one of sentimental piety, for instance, must oblige us towards “ Western capitalists,” “ Prussian junkers,” or any “ suchlike things.” The Marxian adversary, of course, will say (and has to say) that we cannot but be so “ commandeered” and “ committed” ; but we must, with a view to safe­ guarding our intellectual honesty, diligently train ourselves to mind such reflex sounds of his no more than the buzzing of a moth, indeed not to give them a moment’s attention. Thus, if “ The Common Man versus Privilege” were meant to express the evident objective truth — which in fact it is deceitfully intended to “ suggest” and to “ evoke” — that a great multitude of people as such, in regard to its rights, interests, welfare, secur­ ity, perfection, and so forth, is more important than a tiny “ minority” of people as such, we should indeed have to side (as philosophers and citizens or Christians, at least) unequivocally with the “ Common Man” as against “ Privilege” ; the objection that “ we” are somehow specifically tied up with the “ tiny minority” in question would be, even though a true description of our state of consciousness, altogether invalid as an objection. To put it in different terms, if the “ Common Man” stands for the Common Good, and if Privilege means simply what is “good for” the “privileged few” and accordingly “ bad for” the “underprivileged” or the “ disinherited masses,” we in these pages have no case at all. Of course, the contention reposes on baseless presuppositions concealed by the verbal sleight of hand of contrasting a great number simpliciter with a small number simpliciter. The false presuppositions we have in mind are, roughly, threefold in nature. The first is the most obvious and the easiest to lay bare; the second consists in a classic equivocation about justice, which has worked immense harm; the third, more recondite, carries us— once we have seen through it — straight to the core of the matter. First, we have the fallacy of “ class conflict” in the broadest sense of the term: the error that “ goods,” generally and universally, cannot be other than “ goods for consumption” in the strictest and narrowest meaning of the word; that, therefore, the “ possession” of one man necessarily and exactly corresponds to the “ want” of another, and that what is “ given to” one group of people is by definition “ taken away from” another. In other words again, the problem of the good life (along with history, politics, and culture) revolves round the number and the size of the “ slices of cake” falling to this or to that other person, or “ collective” taken as a unit in its contest with other “ collectives.” In sane philosophy, the father is primarily the person who provides for the children (having, incidentally, engendered 6 8 LAVAL THÉOLOGIQUE ET PHILOSOPHIQUE them and placed them in the fabric of an ordered life) ; in the insane philoso­ phy of Subversion, the father is primarily the “ class enemy” or “exploiter” who carves out for himself the largest piece of meat off the common joint. Secondly, then, the slices or pieces or rations should all be equal per capita; or again, if not arithmetically equal, at least strictly proportioned to everybody’s “ contribution” towards their “ production” — the propor­ tion being “measured” by the “ amount of labour” or some other “ evident test.” This must be so under pain of “injustice,” by which is meant a breach of the “social contract” which allegedly regulates all (or all but private and intimate) relations between individuals. If my neighbour owns a larger property or inhabits a larger house than I, he has stolen it from me : it is as though he had defrauded me when “ dividing up” between us, “ on equal terms” as had been stipulated, the possession referred to. Or again, it may be lawful for him to own more and to live on a larger scale : but this can be so on the condition only, and only so long as he can prove at any moment before the tribunal of mankind’s actualized con­ sciousness— of Descartes’s idées claires et distinctes, or of Kant’s Be­ wusstsein überhaupt, perhaps—, that his greater capacity of work or at any rate his appreciable surplus of “ creative genius” (useful in terms of “ needs” revealed by the market or decreed by the competent Department of the Bureau of Human Consciousness) confers upon him the right of owning and enjoying, say, half as much again as I do. Otherwise, he is a leper sundered from the body of “ common men,” an outcast blighted with the sin of “privilege” ; whereas I the “ common man” go afflicted with a grievous wrong, am curtailed of my rights, and am indeed not only entitled but obliged to concentrate all my thoughts and efforts on obtaining redress (not without a vengeance, to be sure). The fallacy is manifest enough; the legitimate moral problem of equality and inequality in social relation­ ships is not, of course, settled therewith, but need not detain us longer at this stage.1 Thirdly, we have already indicated above, if only in vague outlines, the most basic of the false presuppositions underlying the crusade against Privilege on behalf of the Common Man: the interpretation of the “ Com­ mon Good” in terms, if not of class-war, contest, quarrel, envy and mutual exclusion, then of a sameness of reference, use, enjoyment and immediacy: a principle that lies deeper and has farther-reaching implications than the mere narrow-minded jealousy of equalitarianism proper.
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